Orange Pi Lite boots with Buster 21.02.1, but not 21.08

[Ratman]

Hi,

 

I thought I'd share this in case anyone else is in the same situation as I.

 

I've been trying to get my Orange Pi Lite to boot the latest (Aug 26 2021) images. I've tried Focal, Bullseye and Hirsute, and the Lite doesn't seem to care for any of them.  "Armbian_21.02.1_Orangepilite_buster_current_5.10.12_desktop" from the Archive section does boot, as do the versions of Ubuntu and Debian from the Orange Pi website. Perhaps if I had a serial terminal connected I would be able to troubleshoot this, but I don't yet.

 

I'm using a Sandisk Ultra A1 64Gb and I'm monitoring my power supply with my oscilloscope and haven't noticed any dips below 5v.

[Werner]

8 hours ago, Ratman said:

Perhaps if I had a serial terminal connected I would be able to troubleshoot this

Yes, this is the way to debug booting issues.

8 hours ago, Ratman said:

I've tried Focal, Bullseye and Hirsute,

All Armbian flavors share the very same kernel package so it is quite common if one does not work the others do not either.